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Walkers news: May 15 -- St. Louis 7, Twin Cities 6, 11 innings
Record: 21-18, 1st, 2 GA Springfield and Kansas City
A pinch-hit two-out double from Chris Duncan in the bottom of the 11th inning scored Bob Saavedra to give St. Louis a 7-6 win over Twin Cities at Busch Stadium (2006).
The win prevented a three-game sweep by the Snow Cats and ended a five-game losing streak for St. Louis.
Twin Cities, who at one point trailed 3-0, scored three times off Walkers closer Bobby Westerman in the top of the 10th.
Victor Machado led off the inning with a single and scored on a Mike Sartain home run.
Daniel Sanbria then followed with a double before Westerman was removed.
Ron Cox took over and struck out Ray Fry before allowing a single to Juan Yanez, which moved Sanabria to third.
Jesse Leming followed with a double, scoring Sanabria to make it 6-3.
The Walkers, however, tied it in the bottom half of the inning on Mark Herman's fourth homer of the season, a two-out, three-run shot off Jerry McCune.
After Armando Cintron set Twin Cities down in order in the top of the 11th, the Walkers waited until two were out in the bottom half before setting the stage for the winning run.
Saavedra singled to bring up Duncan.
Duncan drove a 1-0 pitch from McCune down the right-field to bring home the game-winner.
Marcos Francis played a big role in St. Louis taking a 3-0 l ed.
He led off the fourth with a double off Snow Cats starting pitcher Garrett Karp.
Francis scored on a two-out single by Herman.
In the seventh, Francis hit a two-out, two-run home run off Jeremy Sudbury.
Twin Cities pulled to within 3-2 in the top of the eighth.
The Snow Cats got three straight two-out hits off Mike Fagan.
The third, from Victor Machado, scored Forrest Nance who had started the string of hits with a pinch-hit single.
Sartain then scored Shane King with a double off Scott Rissler.
Westerman, making his first appearance after missing time with a shoulder injury, gave up a lead-off double to Juan Yanez in the ninth.
Two batters later, Yanez scored on a Bill Walter single.
St. Louis got its best start of the season from Jesse McNaboe.
He pitched into the seventh inning, going 6.2 overall and allowing no runs on three hits. He struck out six and didn't issue a walk.
Nick Ruffalo got the final out of the seventh.
After that it was Fagan (0.1 IP), Rissler (0.1), Westerman (1.0), Cox (1.0) and Cintron (1-0).
Cintron (2-0) earned the win.
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